The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-23

| A Baltimore County Cyclone-A Blow
| or Extraordinary Severity which die
| Much Damage. intense heat of the two
| weeks previous eliminated on Monday afternoon
last in series of thunder storms which appear
to have visited every section of the county. Mos
OF these storms were not violent and the rain
which accompanied them did vast deal of good
to vegetation, besides cooling off the heated atmos
phere.
The most violent storm arose in the north.
western section of the county and took a south
easterly direction, passing over the northern por-
tion of Baltimore city. Along the Liberty road
and Western Maryland railroad it ragged with
great fury and was accompanied by considerable
hail which, in some instances, did great deal OF
damage. On the Liberty road, near Highland
Park, large forests trees twisted off, some of
them thirty feet from the ground, while others
were uprOoted. The country seats of Mr.. 7. Alex
Seth, Mrs. Jesse Slingluff and others in that
ton suffered severely many of the fine trees about
them having either been blown down or torn to
pieces.
A great deal of damage was done in and about
Calverton, where several houses were unroofed
and trees blown down. On the estate of A. r.
Vickers twenty-one trees were destroyed. The
Hebrew Orphan Asylum was damaged to the ex-
tent of $500.
The summer kitchen on the property of Mrs.
Van Tine, Green Spring avenue, was dem0lish-
narrowly escaped injury. number of fine trees
on this place were demolished.
At Emory Grove and further down the railroad
the hail was large and very heavy, doing much
damage to corn and other farm crops. gentle
men informed us that he up picked irregularly
Snapped hail stones that nearly the size Ofhen
eggs. Horses that hitched at the stations
along the road, waiting for the afternoon trains,
were pelted with these chunks of ice, causing
them to break loose and runaway, damaging ve-
hicles and causing much excitement and trouble,
although no one was hurt so far as we have been
able to learn.
At Owings' Mills large tree was blown on the
roof of the summer kitchen of Mrs. f. B. Har-
mans residence, crushing it down. The servants
who were in the kitchen at the time made a very
narrow escape.
In Baltimore city and the northern and eastern
suburbs an immense amount of damage was done
by the unroo6ng of houses, blowing down Of
trees, &c.
In Druid Hill Park upwards of sixty trees, some
of them very large ones, were either uprooted or
twisted off, and the roads were badly washed
Along the line of the Maryland Central road
the damage was only slight, extending some two
miles from the Boundary. Limbs were blown from
trees, few were torn out by the roots and the
growing corn was almost leveled with the ground.
On Roland avenue and about Woodberry con-
siderable damage was done to houses by the blow
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Air hill was turned completely over and the roof
of the Meadow Mill, belonging to the MesSrs.
Hooper, was damaged.
At Mt. Washington the new brick addition in
corse of erection at Mount st. Agnes Academy
was so badly damaged that two stories of it will
have to be rebuilt, involving heavy loss.
Several brick houses in course of erection on
Oak street had their walls blown down, causing
heavy loss.
The effects of the storm in and about Wavery
were very severe. Two new frame houses belong
ing to Mr.. VIM. H. Oliver, were damaged to the
extent of $4,000, while trees and shrubbery were
torn to pieces and the limbs and debris scattered
over the roads.
Several places above Waverly, on the York
road, also suffered considerably by the blowing
down Of fences, trees, &c.
The crops of some of the farmers in Patapsco
Neck suffered greatly from the effects of the wind
and pelting rain and hail. The outbuildings on
the property of Mr.. Carroll Lynch were consid-
erably damaged and two farm hands were badly
hurt by the falling timbers.